Juan Augustin de Yardi

Don Juan Augustin de Yardi was a Commodore of the Spanish Navy.

Biography
Don Juan Augustin de Yardi was the commodore in charge of a fleet of 22 Spanish ships of the Royal Caracas Company sent from San Sebastian (in Pais Vasco) to Cadiz in January 1780, when Admiral George Rodney's British fleet of 26 ships attacked Augustin's fleet. Augustin lost all of his ships, all captured by the British, and his flagship Guipuzcoana (a 64-gun Third Rate ship-of-the-line) was renamed HMS Prince William in the honor of Prince William of Wales, who was present at the battle, the Action of 8 January 1780.